The Introduction to the Ditto SDK course guides you through the foundational skills and knowledge you need to get started with the Ditto SDK. This includes how to sign up and create your first Ditto app on the Ditto Portal, how to conduct simple CRUD operations, syncing data between small peers, and syncing to the big peer in the cloud. You'll experience a common real-world scenario: transforming a prototype into a production-ready application with robust data management capabilities.
Note
This is a proof of concept for the Ditto University. The concepts and code provided is not production ready and is only meant to be used as a reference for the POC of Ditto University learning modules.
You've just joined a development team for the company Acmezon that recently demonstrated a Project Management app to company leadership. The app demo was a hit - the UI was polished, the interactions were smooth, and leadership was ready to ship it immediately. There was just one catch: the entire app was running on mock data.
The prototype lacks several critical features modern users expect:
- No offline support - data disappears when the app closes
- No data persistence - changes aren't saved between sessions
- No synchronization - changes don't sync between devices
- No real-time updates - users don't see each other's changes
Rather than rebuilding from scratch, the team has decided to integrate the Ditto SDK to add these essential features. Your mission is to transform this prototype into a production-ready application with robust offline-first capabilities and peer-to-peer synchronization, all while maintaining the existing user experience.
Through this module, you'll learn how to:
- What is the Ditto Portal is and how it works
- Setup a Ditto Portal account and create an app
- Replace mock data with a real Ditto data store
- Implement offline-first data persistence
- Update the app to perform CRUD operations
- Enable real-time updates across devices (small peers)
- Sync data to the Big Peer in the Cloud
| Course | Topics |
|---|---|
| Lesson 1 Create Your Portal Account | • The purpose of the Ditto Portal and the Big Peer • Register Your Portal Account • Create a new Ditto app • Learn about the Playground Authentication Token |
| Lesson 2 Setting Up Your Development Environment | • Learn about the Ditto SDK • Running the App with Mock Data • Setting up the Ditto Identity |
| Lesson 3 Updating the initial Data with Ditto | • Ditto Collections • DQL INSERT and SELECT Statements • Register Observers |
| Lesson 4 DQL INSERT, UPDATE, and SOFT DELETE | • Learn about DQL INSERT and UPDATE Statements • Soft-Delete Pattern |
| Lesson 5 Syncing Data Across Devices using the Big Peer | • Learn about the Big Peer • Learn the DQL Editor in the Ditto Portal • Test the App with Big Peer syncing changes from the Big Peer to Small Peers |
Head to Lesson 1 - Create Your Account to get started!